Disheartenment · Forgotten Tomb

188 bars, 12:32, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
12:32
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-66, 68-70 and 80-82, and 6 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
DISHEARTENMENT · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 18 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 19 sections: 130 keep time, 24 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-102.

CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
10 groovesDJAGS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disheartenment?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Disheartenment hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 12:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Disheartenment?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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